(upbeat music)
- (Becca) Hey friends!
I'm Becca Scott.
- (Ivan) And I'm Ivan Van Norman and
[Together] Welcome to Game the Game!
- (Becca) Today we are playing Santorini,
a wonderful two player game with variants for
three and four players, but two player is best.
- (Ivan) This is what we are playing, the two player
game today and we have picked our gods.
- (Becca) We have!
- (Ivan) We've actually picked three sets of two different
gods that we think would be really good champions
against each other.
- (Becca) All right, the way this game works is you've got
workers on the board, on your turn you can move
and you can build, in one of the eight adjacent spaces.
- (Ivan) Yeah.
- (Becca) Then after you do that then the other players turn
and on your next turn you can move and build again!
- (Ivan) You could build up a level,
as many times as you'd like,
even if you're on the floor you can build all the way
up to the third or even cap it with a dome.
- (Becca) Oh uh dome's are bad news if you're tryna win!
If there's a dome on a building, you can't go there.
But your goal is to win by making your way up to
the top of building by going to the first level,
then the second level, then up to the third.
Let's get to it!
- (Ivan) Lets play.
- (Becca) Starting out we have Prometheus, and,
- (Ivan) Hephaestus.
- (Becca) Ha ha.
(laughing)
Now I'm the challenger, because I wanted to do this
pairing of Prometheus.
- (Ivan) Oh okay.
- (Becca) And Heph-eph-aestus.
- (Ivan) Hephaestus, I almost just wanna give you
Hephaestus so you can just keep saying the name
over and over again.
- (Becca) Cool.
- (Ivan) Okay.
- (Becca) So you want Prometheus?
- (Ivan) Uh, no I want Hephaestus.
- (Becca) Okay, thank you.
Uh the younger player places first.
- (Ivan) Yup.
- (Becca) Ageist part of the rules I might say.
- (Ivan) Mhmm, and then I will place my dudes, right there.
- (Becca) Lemme tell ya, word for word, what I'm all about.
- (Ivan) okay.
- (Becca) Me, Prometheus, I'm the titan, and the benefactor
of mankind, or humankind, on my turn, if my worker
does not move up, it may build both before and after moving.
What!
- (Ivan) What!
That's putting a lot of foundations all over the board
everywhere, Hephaestus, which is the god of blacksmiths,
your worker may build one additional block, not a dome,
on top of your first block.
- (Becca) Pretty cool.
- (Ivan) So I'm all about them skyscrapers!
- (Becca) First move, lemme go, a build, and
a move, and a build.
- (Ivan) Mmmm, interesting, I think I will move.
- (Becca) Ohh.
- (Ivan) And I think I will build, and then I will build.
- (Becca) That's insane.
- (Ivan) That is insane I just made a winning spot
right here right now and it was the second move in the game.
What am I thinking!
- (Becca) How ya gonna get there?
- (Ivan) I don't know, I'm more of a plotter
than I am a planner, I just like to react off of the
things that I do right now and I'll deal with it later.
- (Becca) I'm gonna move up, and that means I can not
do my power twice.
- (Ivan) Mmhm.
- (Becca) But, that's all right.
- (Ivan) Cool, I'm going to do another one of these
that involves that involves another on of these moves
cause I like a really tall skyliner.
- (Becca) Get out of town!
(laughing)
Okay, let me just...
(laughing)
A move and the build.
- (Ivan) Cool, I think I will take ole top bun here
and put her over here, I think I'll put one here,
and put one here.
- (Becca) Oh, you think you're so clever.
- (Ivan) No!
I just think I like to build tall things.
- (Becca) Mhmm, all right well I'm gonna build because
of my power, and then I will move, and then I will build
once again because I did not change levels.
I think I just won.
- (Ivan) I think you did just win.
- (Becca) Let's see.
- (Ivan) Yeah,
yeah I think you did.
- (Becca) We can always play again.
- (Ivan) I know that's totally okay, that's the best
part about these, yeah I don't think I can go get
a dome on that in time because I am so good at walling
myself out of my own clever schemes.
- (Becca) Sometimes when you have a power, you just
wanna show it off...
(laughing)
...your game.
- (Ivan) You know what no, we are cool, no no there is
no way I can do this, no absolutely not.
- (Becca) But thank you for building me those...
- (Ivan) Good game.
- (Becca) wait no no no!
- (Ivan) Oh you wanna play through?
Okay okay.
- (Becca) Yeah!
- (Ivan) I'll move here, and I'll build.
- (Becca) Cool, I can't move two spaces in one turn.
- (Ivan) No, I think I might actually be okay.
- (Becca) Okay so I'm gonna...
- (Ivan) I gave this up too soon.
- (Becca) I can build twice if I don't change levels,
but I gotta change levels I'm gonna move.
- (Ivan) Okay, you gonna build?
- (Becca) I guess I'll build out.
- (Ivan) Oh, I think you got it.
That was how it was gonna, that's how it was gonna do it.
(laughing)
- (Becca) Now you remember the feelings that you feel
an old school...
- (Ivan) Nope, it was one of those roller coasters of
like I had hope and then it fell apart again.
- (Becca) I'm so sorry.
- (Ivan) No it's, you shouldn't apologize because
we're gonna play again and then I'm gonna beat you.
Hey you know what?
How bout this, how bout you can just have an option
to win no matter where you go.
(laughing)
- (Becca) That's really nice, now I'm wracked
with indecision!
Do I wanna go north, northeast...
(laughing)
East?
You know what I like what's tried and true,
I'll go over this, yay!
- (Ivan) Yayy.
- (Becca) All right that's one game of Santa Rini
but don't worry, we're gonna play again, right now.
Round two Ivan, which gods have you chosen?
- (Ivan) Ah, well I have picked Demeter and Hermes.
- (Becca) Tell me about em.
- (Ivan) So we have both the god of travel and
the goddess of harvest, so Hermes is of course
all about speed and movement, if your workers
do not move up or down they may each move
any number of times, even zero, and then either build.
- (Becca) Oo yeah and then our goddess of the harvest
Demeter, your worker can build an additional time
but not on the same space,
so she's always just building two.
- (Ivan) Just building.
- (Becca) Mm, okay.
- (Ivan) Just reaping that harvest,
so um I picked first last time.
- (Becca) Oh I pick first.
- (Ivan) Now you pick first this time.
- (Becca) I like Demeter.
- (Ivan) Okay, yeah building copious amounts of
things didn't work for me so well last game so.
I'll stick with travel.
- (Becca) Sure sure sure.
If you would place your workers, I'll say, whoever
was defeated in battle last turn may place first this turn.
- (Ivan) Oh why thank you gracious one.
- (Becca) It was only that first player advantage that
got me, got me there.
- (Ivan) Oh, yeah well let's see.
Let's see if that theory holds true this time around.
I'll put it...put it right there.
- (Becca) All right, we're gonna start,
over here.
- (Ivan) Great.
- (Becca) Go ahead and go first.
- (Ivan) One,
a build.
- (Becca) In the middle.
- (Ivan) In the middle, hey man when you tic tac toe,
you always play in the center.
- (Becca) You gotta go.
Okay.
- (Ivan) Yes.
(laughing)
- (Becca) That's a good point.
This is not tic tac toe.
(laughing)
It's, all right Demeter, let me just check, your worker
may build one additional time but not on the same space,
but I can build on the same level
that's what I was checking, okay so Demeter is ready
to party and she's gonna move, and build twice.
- (Ivan) Oh...
- (Becca) On level ones.
- (Ivan) Man...
- (Becca) is that too far away from you?
- (Ivan) We're gonna do so many more corner activities.
- (Becca) Mhmm, I'm hiding back there.
- (Ivan) I'm going to use Hermes ability to move
my character is here, both of them.
- (Becca) They may each move any number of times,
even zero!
- (Ivan) Even zero, and then I will use this opportunity
to build one right here, if that's all right with you.
- (Becca) Yeah, well hiding from you doesn't seem to work,
but you can't move up or down and I can!
- (Ivan) I cannot move up or down and do that speedy
speed run run time.
- (Becca) I think it's time to move on up,
and then I'm gonna build a little level two,
and a little more level one, yeah.
- (Ivan) I'm gonna uh, movin and building!
Poke.
Great, your turn.
- (Becca) I shall move and build twice in different squares.
- (Ivan) Ooo!
- (Becca) Yeah you like that?
- (Ivan) I kinda see where this is going.
(laughing)
And I don't think I like it.
- (Becca) You don't like it?
- (Ivan) I don't...
(laughing)
I think I'm gonna dome on up here is what I'm gonna do.
- (Becca) Get outta here!
- (Ivan) Yeah!
Town...what is, what is going on!
Says everybody.
(laughing)
And nobody at the same time...
- (Becca) All right, love it, I'm gonna go, one,
and now I'm in the center of it all.
- (Ivan) We always go for those quick ones don't we.
- (Becca) I can't build a level three, because
you could reach it.
I'm gonna go a level three, and a level, this is gonna
backfire for me, I, we'll see how this turns out,
I don't know if this was helping you,
we'll see what happens.
Don't play too many moves in advance.
- (Ivan) No you're fine, you're right, why should
I try to win, that's really silly.
That I would even conceive going that far ahead.
I'll move here.
- (Becca) Ah no!
- (Ivan) And I think I'm gonna double down on your,
I wanna level two...
- (Becca) You blocked me out!
So.
- (Ivan) Yeah.
- (Becca) So,
[Together] Rude.
(laughing)
- (Becca) Yeah.
- (Ivan) Yeah that's what I figured.
- (Becca) That is rude, okay, okay.
- (Ivan) Whatchu got!
- (Becca) Okay, well...
- (Ivan) Demeter!
- (Becca) I'm going to move, oh shoot,
no, no,
I can't.
I can't move.
I had a plan, it involved,
never moving.
(laughing)
Noo!
- (Ivan) I think I may have gotten you on this one.
- (Becca) You got the best of me this time.
Forfeit, okay, um, no I made you play it out.
So if I...
You!
(laughing)
Let me just give you lots of options to win.
(laughing)
- (Ivan) Loads of options!
- (Becca) Um the, no I can't build there.
I'm gonna move and build build, great.
- (Ivan) Ah man, what do I do, I just, I'm so unclear
on what my choices are right now.
Oh I see!
- (Becca) Uh huh!
- (Ivan) Oh my, wow.
Yeah the answer was right in front of me.
- (Becca) All right Demeter, get outta here!
- (Ivan) And I'll set up for our third,
and presumably final game.
- (Becca) All right we've decided our options
are Pan and Atlas, and I believe it's your
chance to pick first.
- (Ivan) Oh man, okay, so lets read em up.
So Pan's crazy, Pan has an alternate win condition,
it simply states, you also win if your worker moves
down two or more levels.
- (Becca) That seems so easy.
- (Ivan) Yeah.
- (Becca) But Atlas, is the titan shouldering the heavens,
and you on your build phase your worker may build a dome
at any level including the ground.
- (Ivan) Yeah, so.
- (Becca) So you just gotta follow Pan around and play
defense I guess.
- (Ivan) I know so I guess, which one, who wants to play
home turf and who wants to play offense.
- (Becca) Well I chose first last time.
- (Ivan) That's true so I get to pick.
Oh man, um, it just seems silly not to be Pan, ya know.
- (Becca) Yeah, yeah.
- (Ivan) Let's give it a shot.
- (Becca) Cause I make one wrong move
and you just fall off a ledge.
(laughing)
- (Ivan) Wee!
- (Becca) I love it!
The art right here is just, fall off building, win!
(laughing)
- (Ivan) but I believe you get to place first.
- (Becca) All right, so let me be very centrally
located if I'm going to thwart you, oh oh ima actually
spread it out, yeah.
- (Ivan) Ah mmkay mmkay.
You know what?
Sounds good to me.
(laughing)
- (Becca) First move hah?
- (Ivan) Yeah.
- (Becca) I'll move.
Boop.
- (Ivan) Boop?
Boop.
- (Becca) You're so far away from me, all right, let's
um, I have to build that's the tricky part.
I'm helping you when I build.
Kay.
- (Ivan) Boop.
Boop.
- (Becca) Lemme just move, and build.
Take that dome in your face!
- (Ivan) I smell your dome.
- (Becca) Thank you.
- (Ivan) I smell it.
I'm just gonna move away from that because
I don't like that smell at all!
(laughing)
You just cap everything.
- (Becca) Yeah...I know.
Lemme, build...
There.
Okay.
- (Ivan) Hmm, mmhmm, mmhmm, no sir I don't like it.
That's an old joke.
- (Becca) You moved.
You built.
I see.
(laughing)
- (Ivan) It's like two supercomputers just throwing
themselves at each other.
- (Becca) Mmhmm, let me move on up.
And uh...
- (Ivan) Cap it?
- (Becca) Nah I'm gonna build.
- (Ivan) Oh!
- (Becca) Yeah.
- (Ivan) Level two here now.
- (Becca) Yeah!
You wanna fall off it don't you.
- (Ivan) I like where that tower is going.
- (Becca) Up?
(laughing)
- (Ivan) Plunk.
- (Becca) Mhmm.
Mmhmmmm.
- (Ivan) Mmhmm mmhmm mmhmm.
- (Becca) Let me uh, move.
And build.
- (Ivan) I don't like ya domes...
I don't like them at all.
- (Becca) I like them very much.
- (Ivan) You're rude!.
- (Becca) Atlas is just holding down, the earth.
- (Ivan) Don't make fun off...
- (Becca) One!
- (Ivan) my thoughts!
My thoughts are mine!
- (Becca) Ohh what are you doing?
- (Ivan) I don't know.
- (Becca) Stay away!
That was my corner escape way!
(laughing)
Mmkay.
- (Ivan) Building things.
You like buildings.
- (Becca) I do.
I shall move,
and I shall build.
- (Ivan) I am, so,
buildy...
- (Becca) I am so buildy?
(laughing)
Stop it!
How am I gonna stop you!
(laughing)
- (Ivan) The problem is you have to abandon your plans
in order to thwart my plans.
- (Becca) I know!
- (Ivan) But then when you abandon your plans
I take advantage of your plans!
- (Becca) I move and I build.
- (Ivan) Yes.
I see.
(laughing)
No good you see.
I just want a tower to fall off of!
- (Becca) I just want your win condition.
(laughing)
No!
I shall move.
And I shall build.
- (Ivan) Okay, yeah.
- (Becca) Um.
- (Ivan) That's unfortunate.
- (Becca) For me.
- (Ivan) Yeah, yeah...
- (Becca) Ya domed me!
- (Ivan) I domed ya.
- (Becca) I've been domed...
- (Ivan) No one likes to be domed.
So what, where to now?
- (Becca) We got this.
- (Ivan) Atlas.
- (Becca) I'm gonna move,
and I'm gonna build...yeah.
I think I gotcha.
- (Ivan) Oh maybe.
- (Becca) I'm blocking you with my own body!
- (Ivan) Yeah, that actually may have done it.
- (Becca) I think I got her.
- (Ivan) Why did I build that tower.
- (Becca) It's tempting.
- (Ivan) No I think that's true.
I don't really know, the places I could go to
if I had the old switcherooni gods,
different story.
Ah all right, well.
- (Becca) I gotchu!
Atlas!
(laughing)
- (Ivan) And you get the final pun?
That's great, all right.
(laughing)
Well good game, I just did my move, I'll finish it off,
place it here, go sit on my lonely tower.
- (Becca) Voila!
Haha!
- (Ivan) Good game.
- (Becca) Well done sir!
- (Ivan) Hey, well, that was fun with Santa Rini.
You wanna play another one?
You wanna keep playing?
- (Becca) Ivan thanks for playing me in Santa Rini!
Now let's go get a martini, see ya later.
(laughing)
Punch myself on the way out.
- (Ivan) Wait really.
- (Becca) Ugh, faster!
- (Ivan) I like the slow destruction.
(upbeat music)